Re: Patch: RFA: new option

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

 Tom> We're slowly getting rid of the need for --cygnus mode.

That is great!  Recently I've been wondering if it was really
used (part of it are broken since 1.7, see for instance
txinfo5.test, and until the introduction of -Woverride we never
realized that because there were no test cases and no users
complaining).  Then I checked out a GCC tree, saw things like
`AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.3 cygnus', and thought "ouch!"

 Tom> For instance, I think we don't really want to use it in the gcc tree
 Tom> any more 

Is there anything else out there using cygnus?

 Tom> -- I advocate turning on dependency tracking there now.
 Tom> However, gcc has its own release process, not involving
 Tom> `make dist'.  Phil Edwards wanted to know if there was a
 Tom> `no-dist' option; that seemed like a good idea to me so I
 Tom> wrote the appended patch.

 Tom> Alexandre, tell me what I've missed.  I've been out of automake
 Tom> development for so long I'm afraid to check this in...

Welcome back!  That looks great to me, but as a new feature it lacks
a NEWS entry and a test case.

 Tom> BTW I get an error from maintainer-check:

Fixed, thanks!
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz